In this week’s Tribune, available by subscription or in selected branches of Borders:
Cover story: Resist the return of Star Wars
Ben Folley says Britain must line up with its neighbours against US plans to station its missile defence system in Europe
News
New funding scandal and Labour’s grim situation
MoD housing: armed services and taxpayers are the losers
Ireland’s far right targets migrant workers and refugees
President’s problems mount as Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan
Features
Spotlights: Immigration debate fears; Labour’s south-east crisis
Rupa Huq: Asian artists and academics fight against tokenism
Marcus Papadopoulos: Russia revived – the West must accept it
Peter MacMahon: Answer West Lothian question or risk UK break-up
Enrico Tortolano: Now Guatemala joins the Latin American left
Comment
Joan Smith: Unelected military peers lead from the rear
Paul Routledge: The spy who came in from the cold in Skipton
Bryan Rostron: Racists praise Ian Smith – let’s bury him
Tribune editorial: In defence of the freedom to speak
Michael Meacher: Go Nordic after failed neo-liberalism; David Mills
Ken Livingstone: You can’t trust the Tories on affordable housing
Ian Aitken: Follow the Cable line on Northern Rock’s future
Culture
Robert Giddings: The Pope’s shameful springtime for Hitler
Emmanuel Cooper: Pop Art now the carnival’s over
Neil Young: It’s wild – Brad Pitt goes way out West
Helen Chappell: British comedy – ‘Dead hardcore, isn’t it?’
